Famous People with Name Hermann

Hermann Von Fehling            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Hermann Von Fehling: was a German chemist, famous as the developer of Fehling's solution used for estimation of sugar.With the intention of taking up pharmacy he entered Heidelberg University about 1835. After graduating he went to Gießen as preparateur to Justus von Liebig, with whom he elucidated the composition of paraldehyde and metaldehyde. In 1839, on Liebig's recommendation, he was appointed to the chair of chemistry in the polytechnic in Stuttgart, a position he held for over 45 years. He died in Stuttgart in 1885.

Hermann Emil Fischer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Hermann Emil Fischer: was a German chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1902.In 1875 von Baeyer was asked to succeed Liebig at the University of Munich and Fischer went there with him to become an assistant in organic chemistry.In 1878 Fischer qualified as a Privatdozent at Munich, where he was appointed Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry in 1879. In the same year he was offered, but refused, the Chair of Chemistry at Aix-la-Chapelle.In 1881 he was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the University of Erlangen and in 1883 he was asked by the Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik to direct its scientific laboratory. Fischer, however, whose father had now made him financially independent, preferred academic work.

Hermann Rorschach            Origin/Culture/Country: Swiss

Hermann Rorschach: a Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, best known for developing a projective test known, from his name, as the Rorschach inkblot test.

Hermann Kantorowicz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Hermann Kantorowicz: was a distinguished German jurist.He was a professor at Freiburg University (1923-1929), Visiting Professor, Columbia University(1927), Kiel University (1929-1933), dismissed from Kiel on both political and semitic grounds, 1933, lecturer at the 'University in Exile' and at City College, New York, 1933-34, lecturer at London School of Economics, All Souls College Oxford and Cambridge University, 1934-37, Assistant Director of Research in Law, Cambridge, 1937-1940.For further biographical details see: 'Hermann Ulrich Kantorowicz, eine Biographie by Karlheinz Muscheler' Duncker & Humbolt, Berlin, 1984.(Note by his son Frank Kantorowicz Carter: Kantorowicz had only one first name, though from 1904 to 1922 he regularly added the initial 'U' to distinguish himself from another Hermann Kantorowicz.

Hermann Collitz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Hermann Collitz: was an eminent German historical linguist and Indo-Europeanist, who spent much of his career in the United States. He received the doctorate in 1878 at the University of Göttingen with a dissertation on The Emergence of the Indo-Iranian Palatal Series (German: Die Entstehung der indoiranischen Palatalreihe), and his 1885 Habilitation degree at the University of Halle for The Inflection of Nouns with Threefold Gradation in Old Indic and in Greek: the Case of the Singular (German: Die Flexion der Nomina mit dreifacher Stammabstufung im Altindischen und im Griechischen – Die Casus des Singular).

Karl Samuel Leberecht Hermann            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Karl Samuel Leberecht Hermann: was a German chemist who independently discovered cadmium in 1817. Cadmium was discovered in 1817 by a physician, Friedrich Stromeyer (1776–1835). The element was first found in the condensation of vapors (mixed with soot and zinc oxide) that rose out of a furnace in which zinc oxide was being roasted. Cadmium’s discovery is also loosely attributed to K.S.L. Hermann and J.C.H. Roloff who may have found cadmium in zinc oxide during the same year

Karl Friedrich Hermann            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Karl Friedrich Hermann: was a German classical scholar and antiquary. Having studied philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg and Leipzig (and taking a degree in 1826), he went on a tour of Italy, on his return from which he lectured as Privatdozent in Heidelberg. In 1832, he was appointed to the chair of philosophy at University of Marburg, and in 1833 received the additional offices of second librarian to the university, and director of the philological seminary.

Binger Hermann            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Binger Hermann: was an American attorney and politician in Oregon. A native of Maryland, he immigrated to the Oregon Territory with his parents as part of the Baltimore Colony. Hermann would serve in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly and as a Republican in t

Joseph N. Hermann            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph N. Hermann: was an American politician who was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1977 until his death on May 20, 1993.

Dr. Cornelia (Corrie) Hermann            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Dr. Cornelia (Corrie) Hermann: is a Dutch GreenLeft politician. In the 1998 election Hermann became member of the House of Representatives for GreenLeft. She was spokesperson on health, welfare and food safety. In 2001 she proposed an amendment on the Tobacco Act, which should ensure a smoke-free working place for all. This amendment led to the ban on smoking on workplace premises and public transport. She did not stand for re-election in 2002 election. Hermann is currently retired but still has several functions. She is a member of the Central Medical Review Board, she chairs the Foundation for General Social Work in IJmond-Beverwijk and she is member of the board of the Foundation for the Care of the Elderly in Velsen.